Zarina Hashmi was an influential Indian American artist known for her geometric and minimalist abstract artwork.

Google Doodle commemorated her birthday by featuring a doodle that incorporated her signature artistic style.

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Hashmi's artwork skillfully employed abstract and geometric forms to evoke a profound spiritual experience within the viewer.

She was born in Aligarh, India, in 1937 and later relocated to Karachi due to the partition of India.

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Hashmi's experiences of constant movement during her formative years greatly influenced her artistic expression.

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She explored the realms of printmaking and drew inspiration from modernist and abstract art movements during her travels.

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Hashmi became a passionate advocate for women and female artists of color in New York City.

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Hashmi co-curated an exhibition titled "Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States."

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She joined the Heresies Collective and took on a professorial role at the New York Feminist Art Institute.

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